Members of Parliament are concerned that the existence of London’s public parks may be threatened by commercialization. The Friends of Finsbury Park are pursuing Haringey Council...
Research by Vivid Economics, published today by the National Trusts, indicates that cutting park budgets for city’s networks of public parks and green-spaces would be counter-productive...
A UK-wide search has begun to find the country’s favourite local green space, which will be nominated and selected by vote from the British public. Do you think...
The famous song contest is being held in Vienna this year, following the success of Austrian Conchita Wurst last year. The city has already excellent green...
The Labour party has pledged to protect forests and green spaces if they win the general election and have heavily criticised the current government for failing...
Researchers have suggested that if green spaces were doubled in size in central Melbourne, deaths caused by heatwaves among the city’s elderly could be cut by...
Local authorities should consider rewarding volunteers that improve parks and green spaces with a council tax rebate, thinktank Policy Exchange has suggested in a new report....
The UK’s public parks are in decline because of a lack of funding and many local authorities are considering selling them off – despite being one...
The shortlist for the 2014 Wolfson Economics Prize, which asks entrants how they would deliver a visionary garden city, has been announced, as a poll reveals...
It has been proposed that London should become a national park. The world’s first urban national park, in fact. You might think that this is ridiculous,...
Planting “an army of trees” in the Chinese capital Beijing could help combat the city’s severe air pollution crisis, but such a strategy should not be...
A competition offering £250,000 to the person who could create the best plans for a new ‘garden city’ that would help solve Britain’s housing crisis closed...
A new study analysing the impact of urbanisation on biodiversity has found that protecting green spaces and restoring plant species in cities could allow developed areas...
Hamburg is the second largest city in Germany – with a population of 1.8 million – and it is growing. It is one of Europe’s most...
A record number of children will be in British schools by 2020. Meanwhile, the number of people living in urban areas is due to double by...